Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 70363

Surgical Mesh Implants

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 9 September 2025

Named Day

Question

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if there is a Hospital Episode Statistics code used to record instances of mesh used for rectopexy.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The latest National Clinical Coding Standards, code OPCS-4 2025, which are used in the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset to capture procedure information, includes four codes for use where a procedure concerns the insertion or removal of a mesh. These s...

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